Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?
Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? Or do i have to settle for mfs? [venting frustration] The reason i ask is i need something very flexible when it comes to memory usage as a poor-mans shared-memory feature for a closed source data conversion app, used only occasionally but with *alot* of data passing through. By alot i mean it took our quad core xeon 3 ghz with 4 gbyte memory and 4 SAS drives in 1+0 RAID, about a day and a half to process (on disk). Simple tests (by others) using netbsd on a single cpu 3 ghz and tmpfs, it took roughly 70 minutes. Most of which was spent loading and unloading the data over the network. I'd really like that memory back after use for other things as this server is also serving databases with files etc. I love FreeBSD enough to have run my personal webserver on FreeBSD-Sparc64 but I don't understand here. If NetBSD does the work in 70 minutes why not do it on NetBSD? -- Chris -- __o "All I was doing was trying to get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___ Christopher Sean Hilton pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:42:04PM -0400, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? > Or do i have to settle for mfs? tmpfs is not available in 6, however it has recently been added to -current (7) and will be part of the 7.0 release. If you desperately need it now, you'll have to partake of the adventure that is running -current. If you can wait a while, I'd recommend waiting for the release, especially if this is a production server. mfs sounds like it would definitely not work very well for your use case. Have you tried playing with filesystem options such as mounting a disk-based /tmp async (with softupdates DISABLED) to see if it helps any? Won't be as fast as tmpfs, but with some tuning you might be able to get it to acceptable levels in the interim. Craig ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
